279 pages illustrations (chiefly color), portraits (some color) 25 cm
Type:
Exhibitions
Expositions
Exhibition catalogs
History
Place:
Germany
Allemagne
Date:
2021
20th century
21st century
20e siècle
21e siècle
Notes:
Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at Letterform Archive, San Francisco, CA, November 13, 2021-May 21, 2022
"Bauhaus Typography at 100 is the official catalog for the 2021-2022 Letterform Archive exhibition of the same name, cocurated by Rob Saunders and Henry Cole Smith"--Colophon
Gift of Margery Masinter
Contents:
About the exhibition -- Curator's foreword / Rob Saunders -- Introduction / Ellen Lupton -- Bauhaus timeline -- Early visions -- The first exhibitions -- Bauhaus publications -- Typographic masters -- Toward a new typography -- Beyond the Bauhaus
Summary:
"An unprecedented, definitive look at the school's typography and print design, from its early expressive tendencies to the functional modernism for which it is famed today. The Bauhaus looms large as one of the most influential legacies in 20th-century graphic design. Known for its bold sans-serif typefaces, crisp asymmetrical grids and clean use of negative space, the school emerged as the forebearer of a new look, one that seized the tools of mass production in the creation of a radical new art. Today, just over 100 years after the Bauhaus's opening in 1919, the school's visual hallmarks have come to define modernity as it appears on the printed page."--Provided by publisher
